18th century

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Voltaire

Jeremy Bentham

Samuel Johnson

Pierre-Simon Laplace

François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Antoine Lavoisier

Immanuel Kant

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

John Locke

Mary Wollstonecraft

Pierre de Marivaux

Benjamin Franklin

David Hume

Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet

Jane Austen

Denis Diderot

Thomas Paine

Montesquieu

Alexander von Humboldt

Edmund Burke

Hans Christian Ørsted

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Pierre Beaumarchais

Georges Cuvier

Isaac Newton

Carl Linnaeus

Sophie Germain

Friedrich Schiller

Emmanuel Swedenborg

Adam Smith

Caroline Herschel